The Postmistress

I was so excited to read this book.  So excited!  But my excitement quickly faded by just how slow this novel took to get anywhere.  The story set up a very exciting and intriguing possibility, but then dragged on from there.  From a historical perspective, though, I thought it was pretty interesting, especially of the feeling depicted of the U.S. prior to involvement in World War II.  But I felt that this great possibility was set up that never really came to be in a very interesting way.  The concept set up in this book was a such a good one and had the ability to be amazing... but it kind of fizzled out and was fairly anticlimactic in that area.  What would happen if the person in charge of delivering the mail, didn't deliver one select piece of mail?  What would happen to that person?  How could that affect their life?  What happens when the person whose job it is to deliver the news decides not to?    This book was successful of making you feel the terror and urgency of having a person be present in one moment and gone in the next, but that was about it.  I was disappointed :(  I need someone else to read this book and tell me if I just missed something major.  Maybe I'm being too hard on it, but I just felt that the hugeness of what Iris, the postmistress in Franklin, and Frankie, the journalist who traveled in England and France and eventually Franklin, might deliver or withhold from delivering, would be a bigger climax in the story, and to me they just kind of happened in a very blah, everyday kind of way.   Did Iris choosing not to deliver a letter change what would have happened in the story?  No.  And that change is what I was looking for.